5,962 Forum Posts by "Dr-Worm"
Bah? Back in my Halo 2 days, I used shotguns frequently, and I also use shotguns often in GTA games, among other franchises. And in Gears of War, it's more or less the only weapon I use.
At 9/6/08 02:07 AM, Death-Affiliate wrote: The worst video game accessory? The atari mind sink. Google that shit.
It was so ludicrously stupid that it was never actually released, though, so does it count?
At 7/29/08 10:16 PM, SupergamerX wrote: What is the worst video games accessory? I love the power glove. It's so bad. literally bad.
The second I read the thread title, the first thing I thought was "Power Glove."
Also, this article is very relevant to this thread.
GTA 4 has mirrors, though they're all inexplicably blurry. Also, I remember Prey featuring a mirror prominently in its opening sequence.
Back in the days of the N64 Rumble Pak, this was a much easier task...
"I was 14, just a little older than Bobby. But I knew Uncle Sam needed me, so I lied and signed up. We had beat the Nazzys in Italy, and they shipped me to the Pacific theater. A Tojo torpedo sent our troop ship to the bottom. I could only save three of my buddies: Fatty, Stinky, and Brooklyn. They were kind of like you fellas [to Bill, Dale, and Boomhauer], only one of them was from Brooklyn. Out of the sun came a Tojo Zero and put fitty bullets in my back. The blood attracted sharks. I had to give 'em Fatty. Then things took a turn for the worse. I made it to an island, but it was full of Tojos! They were spitting on the U.S. flag! So I rushed 'em, but it was a trap. They opened fire and blew my shins off. Last thing I remember, I beat 'em all to death with a big piece of Fatty. I woke up in a field hospital, and they were sewing my feet to my knees."
Cotton Hill, a true American hero...
Wow. Rarely have I seen a "girl" thread so simple and genuine that it's managed to (more or less) completely stave off the typical Newgrounds shitstorm of cynicism. Congrats.
Well, hopefully he can see this as a learning experience. I, personally, would have been much more distraught over the waste of $700, but I guess I can see where he's coming from. Anyways, he's only 14, so I'm sure there'll be plenty of other women in his life for him to waste money on who will go out with him. All you can do is make sure he doesn't sulk for too long.
At 9/4/08 09:14 PM, Yorik wrote: That show is old as shit, and they stopped writing new episodes as far as I know... Do reruns still air on daytime TV? The last time I saw it was probably 1 a.m. or so on a weekday about a year ago.
FOX is actually still airing new episodes, though the show's creators, Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, have obviously moved on to bigger (and better? I think so) things. I believe it's in around its 15th season or so.
Which reminds me, this year is the big 2-0 for "The Simpsons," as in: by the end of this year, they'll be tied with "Gunsmoke" as the longest running TV series ever, a record that they'll obviously surpass next year.
At 9/4/08 08:36 PM, Evark wrote: Maybe it felt flat to you because the majority of the season was devoted to their project movie. I'unno.
Yeah, pretty much. I just don't think the whole "Medellin" thing was played to its full potential, and the way it ended was just ludicrously stupid (and leaves the new season in a pretty bad place to start). Aside from that, a lot of the subplots seemed disjointed and not all that interesting (where the hell did Anna Faris come from, and why isn't she being funny?). And on top of all that, I just found myself really not caring enough about any of the characters to get into the story, what with them all being assholes except for E, who's boring.
Boo fucking hoo. You can't watch a show that hasn't been consistently funny since...ever. Maybe your whining and dramatizing says something about your maturity, in which case I'd have to agree with your parents (not that "Family Guy" is anything close to a "mature" show, but you get what I'm saying).
As for me, I still watch it every week (the jokes go by so fast that the numerous misses don't sting too hard), and interestingly enough, my dad now loves the show, probably more than I do.
At 9/4/08 08:25 PM, Evark wrote: You've criticized Entourage's story arc?
Yeah, but there's a huge difference between the two shows. "Sunny" doesn't try to have a continuous, serialized story arc, instead opting for standalone episodes. In fact, like "Seinfeld," the show prides itself on having zero character development. The same cannot be said for "Entourage," which does have a continuous story arc that has been quite good in past seasons but has kind of fallen flat with the most recent one.
Where in the fucking fuck is "Watchmen?"
though I suppose it might be falling out of that "early '09" category thanks to the assholes at 20th Century Fox...
I was extremely underwhelmed by the last of season of "Entourage." The story arc was terrible, Vince and E were still boring, and the other characters for the most part devolved into parodies of themselves. Most importantly, it just plain wasn't that funny (though Ari, Drama, and Lloyd always have their moments). The main shtick of the series is starting to wear thin, and the only thing I'm seeing now is a bunch of shallow Hollywood douchebags walking around and being cool.
I'll probably watch the first couple of episodes to see if the show can return to form, but it's not looking good. As far as my HBO comedic inclinations are concerned, I'll be sticking with the far superior "Flight of the Conchords," the third best comedy on television in my opinion (behind only "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and "The Office").
At 9/3/08 11:21 PM, Lagatag wrote: Link. He nevar has teh secks wid Zalde.
The problem there is that Link can't be gay. Either that or he lives a miserable lie of a life, because there's a whole bunch of different reincarnated Links throughout the series, meaning he has to have procreated. Though assuming that WW/PH Link is the most recent, and he's still only about 10 years old, he very well might possibly be gay.
As for why Link "nevar has teh secks wid Zalde," I can attempt to explain that, but it would require that I briefly get all literary on a work clearly not intended for that kind of interpretation.
P.S. I know that you're just being sarcastic, but I decided to respond anyway for shits and giggles.
In my opinion, Chrono Trigger is miles ahead of every other RPG before and since its release. Few other games period, let alone RPG's, have plot and characterization at the level of originality and depth of Chrono Trigger, not to mention the fact that the battle system is actually interesting and both that and the graphics hold up beautifully even after all these years. As much as I love EarthBound, I can hardly say the same for that game.
Well, there's Vamp from the MGS series and Flea from Chrono Trigger, who are both actually gay instead of just, y'know, a little feminine.
But all snooty liberal high horses aside, something has always struck me as a bit suspect about Marcus and Dom's intense bromance...
At 9/2/08 10:04 PM, Blaze-Heatnix wrote: I'll name an example. Magus from Chrono Trigger: Emo, everyone's favorite character.
"Sullen" or "moody" and "emo" are two very different things, and Magus (when he's a kid, as I assume your accusation is coming from) is most certainly the former. The key difference is that emo kids' angst and doom-and-gloom is either exaggerated or entirely unwarranted, not to mention the fact that it's expressed more by physical appearance than by demeanor. Magus has plenty of good reasons to act moody (alienated from society, no real friends except his sister and his cat, mom is a corrupted, oppressive autocrat). As for the way he looks (especially as a kid), I'd chalk that up to art direction.
Plus, Chrono Trigger was released well before the proliferation of the emo movement. Sonic Adventure 2 (where Shadow makes his debut) was not. But most importantly, Magus is a unique, fully developed, three-dimensional character. That's why people like him. Shadow is just Sonic with black fur and a frown.
I think there is something to playing the first game first, and playing them all in the order of Kojima's vision (1, 2, 3, 4) as opposed to chronologically.
However, MGS 1 has a much less convoluted plot than the other games, so while you should definitely read up on the game's plot before diving into 2, I don't know if it's totally necessary to play through all of game 1 first. It's a great game, but...it's really starting to show its age.
At 9/2/08 08:12 PM, shas1194 wrote: I use guitar hero 3 for the wii, I will soon be getting world tour for my xbox 360 because the wii can't download songs!
If it's DLC you're after, consider Rock Band 2, given its huge DLC support. If you're more excited by the prospect of making music than downloading it, then I guess World Tour would be for you. I personally am going to be sticking with RB. I just plain think Harmonix does it better.
At 9/2/08 08:08 PM, DasUberCow wrote: I really want it on PSN aswell but i think Behemoth is sucking Microsoft of.
Or there's the more likely scenario that the XLA development tools are the easiest to work with (PC notwithstanding), not to mention the fact that the 360 has the largest hardcore userbase of the three consoles (since it's sold more units than the PS3 and the majority of Wii users would probably never even hear of Castle Crashers).
At 9/1/08 11:35 PM, Superperpel wrote: You know... Video game fans. Not Xbox, PS3, PC fanboys or nostalgia whores with their Wii. I mean cold hard video game fans that like all the consoles besides me. Well I own them all except the Wii which I'm sure is good just isn't the best at a technical standpoint..
I am, and I raise you one Nintendo Wii :)
I don't really understand why many of us gamers are such a hateful lot. Hatred of "casuals" (1), "noobs" (2), people who prefer a different console than you (3), etc.
1. Yes, in every pop culture medium, there's a sizable hardcore niche that likes to sneer at the mainstream crowd and their boorish, stupid tastes, but casual gamers didn't do anything to deserve the constant flaming and insults. Ideally, we want to cultivate these people into hardcore gamers like ourselves because A: more sophisticated gamers equals higher sales for sophisticated games, causing more of such games to be made, and B: the more, the merrier, but all we seem to be doing is scaring them away.
2. This one just baffles me beyond belief. In anything that requires skill (videogames included), isn't it the responsibility of the experienced to guide the inexperienced? Shouldn't we be helping the "noobs" along the way to a skill level they're comfortable with, instead of looking down on them for simply buying a game later than we did?
3. And now we come to the one that this thread is chiefly concerned with. Look, different people have different opinions on things. Some people like certain consoles better. Just because you chose one over another doesn't mean that the one you didn't choose is terrible. It just means that it's not for you (or more likely, given how many people get cranky whenever someone compares consoles, it is for you but you're a bipedal sheep indoctrinated by your childhood into an illogical brand loyalty, like me with Nintendo to a certain, tolerable degree). Brand loyalty is extremely stupid. We shouldn't close ourselves off to experiences simply because the logo on the box isn't one we usually buy things from. Try to look at each console as objectively as you can, and then, based solely on how that information applies to you and only you, make a decision (or two, or three, depending on your financial situation). That way, we'll all end up happy instead of bitter that we're stuck with a console we don't like as much as the others.
Why are gamers always looking to pick fights, with each other, with casuals, with new players? From my perspective, there's a limitless amount of aliens/zombies/Nazis/androgynous villains with weird names to fight right there on your TV screen. Go beat them up instead.
I have no need for such a petition.
*lies and tells all three systems I love them equally, then secretly gives 360 candy*
At 8/31/08 12:15 PM, Blaze-Heatnix wrote: BECAUSE TO LIKE ANY NEW CHARACTER YOU HAVE TO BE IMMATURE.
Yes, actually. It takes a complete lack of pop cultural experience and taste to find characters like (especially) Shadow anything but one-dimensional, unoriginal, and boring. Plus, actually liking the newer games suggests that fanboyism takes precedence over quality control in your mind, which is a sign of immaturity.
That being said, I guess if I had to pick one character, I'd say Knuckles, seeing as Sonic is just a somewhat pathetic relic of early '90s pre-teen "'tude" and Tails is indescribably annoying (not that there's anything wrong with his lifestyle :P).
At 8/30/08 08:28 PM, Yacazuma wrote: It's people like you who ruin the Sonic series.
I thought it was people like Sonic Team who ruin the Sonic series.
At 8/30/08 12:29 PM, wiips36 wrote: 3.dark knight <---no joke
I'll give you the chance to elaborate before I put you on the receiving end of the flaming of a lifetime.
I think I'm going to name my son either Commander Flex Plexico or Staff Sergeant Max Fucking Fightmaster. The only awesome, manly name the list neglected to mention was Wolf Blitzer.
At 8/29/08 10:50 PM, 7794 wrote: Upcoming exclusives for the PS3 include LittleBigPlanet, Resistance 2, inFamous, Killzone 2, MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, "Saints Row 2", and SOCOM: Confrontation.
Ooh, I forgot all about inFamous. That makes a whopping two upcoming PS3 games I actually give a shit about (that and LittleBigPlanet).
I'd expect the problem to be fixed sooner then you're giving the Behemoth credit for. They're not like some big company. They're close to the community (especially this community), so I'm sure that Tom 'n the gang are already well aware of the issues. It's just a matter of finding the time to sort them out.
